WASHINGTON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--The ADEAGies
Foundation is pleased to announce the winners of the 2013 William J. Gies
Awards for Vision, Innovation, and Achievement (Gies Awards). The
Gies Awards, named after dental education pioneer William J. Gies,
Ph.D., honor individuals and organizations exemplifying dedication to
the highest standards of vision, innovation, and achievement in dental
education, research, and leadership. Johnson & Johnson Healthcare
Products, Division of McNEIL-PPC, Inc., is the premier sponsor.

The Gies Awards will be presented March 18, at a highly anticipated
celebration to be held in conjunction with the 2013 American
Dental Education Association (ADEA) Annual
Session & Exhibition, taking place March 16-19, in Seattle. The
2013 honorees were selected by a distinguished panel of judges
consisting of the ADEAGies Foundation Board of Trustees.

The ADEAGies Foundation congratulates the following award recipients:

Gies Award for Outstanding Achievement - Public or Private PartnerDr.
Jennifer L. Cleveland, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

“The William J. Gies Awards are truly a high honor in the field of
dental education,” says Richard W. Valachovic, D.M.D., M.P.H., President
of the ADEAGies Foundation and Executive Director of ADEA. “By shining a
light on the extraordinary work of dental educators, academic
institutions, and our partners—the best and the brightest in academic
dentistry—the ADEAGies Foundation recognizes those who blaze a path for
a new generation of leaders in dental education.”

The Gies Awards are presented by the ADEAGies Foundation, the
philanthropic arm of ADEA. For more than 50 years, the ADEAGies
Foundation has enhanced the oral health of the public through
programs that support dental education, research, leadership, and
recognition.

About The William J. Gies Foundation: The William J. Gies
(pronounced guys) Foundation was established in 1950 by
colleagues and admirers of Dr. Gies with seed funds raised by the
American College of Dentists. It was a private foundation and the first
U.S. foundation to support dental education and scholarship. In 2002, it
joined with the American Dental Education Association (ADEA) to form
ADEAGies Foundation, a public foundation.

About William J. Gies and the Gies Report: William Gies was a
Columbia University biochemistry professor and founder of the College of
Dental Medicine at Columbia University, where he was interested in
dental education, science, and clinical applications. In 1926, as part
of a series of studies on U.S. professional education funded by the
Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching, Dr. Gies published
a landmark report that established the importance of dentistry as a
healing science and an essential component of higher education in the
health professions. The Gies Report, Dental Education in the United
States and Canada, took five years to research and write. It
consists of 250 pages of text and more than 400 pages of appendices,
including lengthy descriptions and evaluations of the existing dental
schools, each of which Dr. Gies visited. Since the Gies Report, there
have been many other reports on dental education in the context of
health professions education. However, Dental Education in the United
States and Canada remains to this day the most relevant survey of
dental education and critical issues within the field.

About ADEA: The American Dental Education Association (ADEA) is
the voice of dental education. Its members include all U.S. and Canadian
dental schools and many allied and advanced dental education programs,
corporations, faculty, and students. The mission of ADEA is to lead
individuals and institutions of the dental education community to
address contemporary issues influencing education, research, and the
delivery of oral health care for the health of the public. ADEA’s
activities encompass a wide range of research, advocacy, faculty
development, meetings, and communications, like the esteemed Journal
of Dental Education, as well as the dental school admissions
services AADSAS, PASS, and CAAPID.